Apostolic office

He believed in an end-times restoration of spiritual gifts and apostolic offices to the Church.

Colleen functions in the apostolic office and is an unapologetic church planter.

Although priests in the Eastern churches are universally granted this faculty, it is thus ultimately considered a sacrament granted by a bishop and associated with that Apostolic office.

More recently another form of charismatic restorationism with a similar recognition of the apostolic office has emerged in the form of the Apostolic-Prophetic Movement, centered on the Kansas City Prophets.

Renowned New Testament scholar J.B. Lightfoot also objects to this view since it "clearly implies that his [Paul's] Apostolic office and labours were well known and recognized before this conference."

With the establishment of a higher Apostolic office, the Chief Apostle appointed all subsequent Apostles as opposed to prophetic calling, which had been fundamental since the formation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Lawrence Welsh, the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Spokane, wrote of Francis Schuckardt in the Inland Register (a diocesan newspaper): "Bishop Schuckardt has received no mission from the church universal and does not accept the unity of the apostolic office.